CVE-2026-5450 (GCVE-0-2026-5450)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-04-20 20:55
Modified
2026-04-20 20:55
Severity ?
CWE
  • CWE-122 - Heap-based buffer overflow
Summary
Calling the scanf family of functions with a %mc (malloc'd character match) in the GNU C Library version 2.7 to version 2.43 with a format width specifier with an explicit width greater than 1024 could result in a one byte heap buffer overflow.
Impacted products
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The GNU C Library glibc Version: 2.7   < *
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